Banking Politics & Policy News
American Banker's Politics & Policy coverage delivers news and analysis on how legislative action, federal agency rulemaking, regulatory politics, and public policy debates shape banking strategy, risk, competition, and compliance. Coverage explores congressional priorities, executive branch initiatives, regulatory agency actions, and the political forces that shape and impact the operating environment for financial institutions, payments companies, fintechs and distributed finance companies.
Bank leaders must navigate a dynamic policy environment where congressional action, regulatory priorities, and political forces influence capital standards, supervisory expectations, digital asset frameworks, deposit insurance, consumer rules, and competitive dynamics.
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Officials in the Trump administration have floated the idea of changing how the government measures economic growth. Economists say the shift would create new expenses for banks.
March 24 -
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trump's National Economic Council director, Kevin Hassett, are set to meet Tuesday with House and Senate Republican leaders and their top tax writers to try to resolve differences over the scale of cuts and ways of paying for them.
March 24 -
It's time to drag sclerotic, paper-based U.S. federal payment operations into the digital future. The technology exists, and America's global competitors are already putting it to use.
March 24
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The largest U.S. bank will now call the initiative Diversity, Opportunity & Inclusion, or DOI, Chief Operating Officer Jenn Piepzak said in a memo to staff Friday.
March 21 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has rehired more than 100 fire employees, but the union claims dozens of employees have not been reinstated in violation of a federal court order.
March 21 -
The OCC will no longer assess reputational risk in bank exams, aligning with President Trump's push to curb debanking, which critics say drove politically motivated account closures.
March 21 -
The Federal Reserve governor voted against the decision to slow the pace of balance sheet reduction earlier this week, preferring to allow the current pace of reduction.
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